Dr Phillip Walmsley
Clinical Senior Lecturer
Teaching
ScotGEM Agents of Change
MD4000
MD4002
Research areas
I am a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the National Treatment Centre, Victoria Hospital Kirkcaldy, with a specialist interest in complex knee surgery. Alongside my clinical practice, I am a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine at the University of St Andrews.
My medical degree was completed at the University of Manchester, followed by surgical training in the North-West of England and Higher Surgical Training in Trauma and Orthopaedics in Edinburgh. Following CCT, further fellowship training in sports knee surgery and revision lower limb arthroplasty took me to centres of excellence in Edinburgh, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2018, I was selected for the prestigious ABC Travelling Fellowship to North America.
From 2017 to 2025, I served as Associate Postgraduate Dean (Quality) with NHS Education for Scotland. I also hold an MD in Orthopaedic Surgery from the University of St Andrews, where my doctoral research examined outcomes and survival following total knee replacement.
My current research interests include using routinely collected health data to improve outcomes in lower limb arthroplasty, rapid diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection, management of bone loss in revision knee surgery, and advancing both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and training.
PhD supervision
- Feras Al Jaafari
- John Bayram
- Isabelle Cochrane
- Conor McCann
- Scott Morrison
- Stuart Reid
Selected publications
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Open access
GLP-1 receptor agonists and weight-loss strategies for individuals with obesity and hip or knee osteoarthritis: a scoping review
McCann, C., Clement, N., Murray, A., Kearney, R., Madigan, S., Gee, C., Walmsley, P., Morrison, S., Chopra, S. & Hall, A., 19 Jun 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: British Journal of Sports Medicine. Online FirstResearch output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Knee arthroplasty in patients under 50 years demonstrates durable survivorship despite substantially higher lifetime revision risk than in older patients
Morrison, S. R., Hall, A. J., Lim, B., Akhtar, A. & Walmsley, P., 15 Jun 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy. Early View, p. 1-11 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Non-surgical casting versus surgical reduction for children with severely displaced distal radial fractures (the CRAFFT Study): a multicentre, randomised, controlled non-inferiority trial and economic evaluation
Perry, D. C., Zimmermann, A., Achten, J., Nicolaou, N., Metcalfe, D., Kounali, D., Lyttle, M. D., Frempong, S., Appelbe, D., Mason, J., Kandiyali, R., Gibson, P., Costa, M. L. & CRAFFT Study Investigators (TOTS Research Collaborative and the PERUKI Network), 18 Apr 2026, In: The Lancet. 407, 10538, p. 1538-1548 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Surgical fixation versus non-surgical care for children with a displaced medial epicondyle fracture of the elbow (the SCIENCE study): a multicentre, randomised controlled, superiority trial and economic evaluation
Perry, D. C., Achten, J., Zimmermann, A., Kandiyali, R., Appelbe, D., Wright, J. G., Ferguson, D., Wang, K., Wilson, N., Moscrop, A., Mason, J., Kounali, D., Costa, M. L. & SCIENCE Study Collaborators, 20 Jan 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The Lancet. In Press, p. 1-10 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Survival of the Exeter V40 hemiarthroplasty femoral component and associated complications: an eight-year review of 3,050 cases from a major trauma centre
Kennedy, M. J., Nair, G., McColm, C., Paterson, A. V., Walmsley, P. J., Clement, N. D., Clarke, J. V. & Jenkinson, M. R. J., 1 Feb 2026, In: The Bone & Joint Journal. 108-B, 2, p. 226-233 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The epidemiology and outcomes of periprosthetic femur fractures: the Scottish National Audit of Periprosthetic Femur Fractures (SNAP Femur) study
Kennedy, M., Clement, N. D., Farrow, L., Kennedy, I. W., Harding, T., SCOTnet SNAP Femur Group, Blacklock, C., Penfold, R. S., Clarke, J. V., Duckworth, A. D., MacLullich, A. M. J., Walmsley, P. J., Hall, A. J. & Arnold, M., 1 May 2026, In: The Bone & Joint Journal. 108-B, 5, p. 707-715 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Use of the VELYS robotic‐assisted solution in knee arthroplasty: a scoping review
Morrison, S. R., Hall, A. J., Clement, N. D., Walmsley, P. J., Gee, C. & Clarke, J. V., 20 Apr 2026, In: Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics. 13, 2, 23 p., e70726.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Agents of change: preparing Scotland’s future doctors to lead health system transformation
Flynn, A., O'Malley, A., Stuart, J., Millar, A., Walmsley, P. & Denvir, L., 23 Oct 2025.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
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A novel approach for tissue analysis in joint infections using the Scattered Light Integrating Collector (SLIC)
Assaf, E., Amerschläger, C. F., Nessler, V. B., Ali, K., Ossendorff, R., Jaenisch, M., Strauss, A. C., Burger, C., Hischebeth, G. T., Walmsley, P. J., Wirtz, D. C., Hammond, R. J. H., Bertheloot, D. & Schildberg, F. A., 4 Dec 2025, In: Biosensors. 15, 12, p. 1-15 15 p., 795.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Are current patient-reported outcome measures fit for purpose to evaluate unicompartmental knee arthroplasty?
Bayram, J. M., Clement, N. D., Hall, A. J., Walmsley, P. & Clarke, J. V., 2 Jan 2025, In: Journal of Clinical Medicine. 14, 1, 14 p., 203.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review